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It's a pleasure to share the first mix contribution of this new decade which comes from the heart of California's apostle of funk, Garrett. Interview (excerpt) down below. 

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MFM: Hi Garrett, such a pleasure to have you on board. For the readers who've never been to Pasadena before, could you describe how it is growing up and living there as an artist?

G: It’s a suburb just north of The City of Los Angeles. A few miles from Dodgers Stadium. Home of the Rose Bowl & the Rose Parade. Living there was nice, for the most part. Slower than Los Angeles, yet..still in the same county. All backgrounds live there & also co-existed with each other in the schools & etc. The schools used to have music programs. The neighborhoods had parks. Still do. Yet, the park in my neighborhood was called Jackie Robinson Park. A lot of stories from the era I grew up in around this park, neighborhood & particular side of Pasadena aka: Northwest Pasadena. Too much for your readers, now, in this interview. 

MFM: Is it different now from back when you grew up there?

G: It’s different. My neighborhood used to be mostly Black. Last time I went back, it was mostly Latino. Downtown has now been gentrified. Small Mom & Pop stores have been replaced with big brand stores & eateries. Etc. Yet, all things change. Nothing ever stays the same.

MFM: Could you tell a bit about how you got to play instruments and where your exceptional knowledge of anything funky comes from?

G: Just taught my self keyboards & drums. No one taught me anything. It was natural. Just dived in. As for Funk; it was all over the place growing up; on the radio, my parents records, my neighbors windows, the cars driving by, boom boxes after school, etc. Hip-Hop was part of my youth as well. Just came later. Yet, I was also into other styles by artists such as RUSH, Gary Numan, KISS, Iron Maiden, Soft Cell, The Human League, early 80’s King Crimson like “Elephant Talk” & more. That was how we got down in Pasadena. We weren’t one dimensional as far a music styles. 

MFM: Apart from funk-related music, is there any other kind of music you're into, or maybe even get your inspiration from?

G: I like Detroit Techno a lot. Early Chicago House (particularly Larry Heard’s endeavors & related), Prog. Library music, Ambient, some Metal, & some Pop, such as artists like Prefab Sprout & The Blue Nile.

MFM: On your LP's synths seem to do the talking whereas lots of your other material include vocals too. Is there a specific reason for that both Garrett albums came out fully instrumental?

G: It’s a glimpse into my private life. I’m an only child. Didn’t really need to speak much. So, that mind-state flows all over both releases, in that manner.  

MFM: You're a producer and musician foremost. At what point did DJing start to play a pivotal role in your life/career?

G: Around 2006 when I started DJ’ing (weekly) at a party called Funkmosphere in Culver City, California at a small bar called Carbon. The rest is history. 

MFM: How important is DJing and touring to you? You seem to be rather selective when choosing shows, correct?

Garrett: All of my creative endeavors are important to me. I really don’t take any of them for granted. I’m not that selective. I think if anything is related to that; it may be that I just don’t wanna play myself out everywhere, every month! I’d like it to remain special when I come around, worldwide (humbly speaking).

MFM: If there's anything more you'd like to share maybe?

G: Thank you to all the listeners for your continued interest & support of my creative endeavors out here in the world. I sincerely appreciate it. I’ve matured over the years & thank you all for maturing with me. Peace to the entire MFM staff & everyone paying attention + listening.

MFM Mix 011: Garrett

Mixed Nuts

Turned on by a new dawn of chemical love, Sydney dance-funk combo Bellydance laid down their sampledelica blueprint in 1991, thinking in parallel with Weatherall’s revelatory work with Primal Scream. A candy flip of streetsoul, festival jam band and Chip Monck’s cautionary brown acid address, 3 Days Man! was primed for open fields and discotheques, in an age when the deejay was royalty.

With an elastic lineup that boasted up to 9 members, Bellydance synchronised more with the club scene than the city’s straight-ahead pub rock racket, naturally recruiting hometown heroes Peewee and John Ferris to remix their multi-track concoction. A certified party closing anthem, the brother’s sun-smacked breakbeats elevate a collective consciousness beyond the clouds.

Originally issued on Regular Records sub-label Boomshanka Music as a precursor to their album One Blood, the John Peel approved 12” sported characteristic artwork from Mambo visionary and Mental As Anything co-founder Reg Mombassa. Instigated by Sydney selector Ben Fester, this Efficient Space reboot arrives fashionably late to Woodstock’s 50th anniversary but just in time to help soothe universal division.

B1 Bellydance - 3 Days Man! (Pee Wee Ferris & John Ferris Extended Mix) 8:02 (ES020)

Forthcoming on Going Good: 

Going Good pair up, once more, with Detroit's Todd Modes (1/2 of Cosmic Handshakes) for a 4 tracker of discoid motor city music. 

Featuring a plethora of international and local Detroit musical talents and movers (including our very own Tokyo connect - Yoshinori Hayashi), the 'Serpent EP' is not typical of the majority of sonic output from the city. Eschewing techno archetypes and operating within a distinctly 'live' group scenario, Modes and his crew offer us an organic 4 tracker steeped in ritualistic studio jamming and mixing, explosive live percussion, whispered chants and vocals, heavy dub stylings and jazz infused keys work graced with blasts of skilful saxophone and a feeling of hazy smoked out groove that only a lifetime of digging $1 thrift store disco not disco 12"s and basement mixing sessions can lead to.

TRACKLIST: 
A1 - Serpent
A2 - Rain Rituals 
B1 - Time Layers 
B2 - Shedding Skin

Release date: December 2020 / January 2021 TBC. 
Distributed worldwide exclusively by: GGHQ Distro. 
Info: goinggoodrecords@gmail.com

GOOD-16: Todd Modes 'Serpent EP' (Snippets)

Taken from 'Garrett - Private Life III' (MFM051)
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Private Life III

A3. Garrett - Room With A View (5:32)

Next up on our monthly Carhartt WIP RELEVANT PARTIES podcast series is Munich-based label Public Possession. In our fifth episode, the label’s founders Valentino Betz and Marvin Schuhmann talk about their uncompromising and uncommon vision for Public Possession, which was founded in 2013 with the intention of it being more than just a musical outlet. The result has seen the label produce art, clothes and events, acting as something of a cultural hub for the Bavarian city.

At its core, however, is Public Possession’s musical releases, which have included the likes of Bell Towers; Australian producer Andras; Austria’s king of glam club pop Wolfram; up-and-coming New Zealanders Eden Burns and Nice Girl; and multidisciplinary Taiwanese artist Yutie Lee.

Tune in to hear what Valentino and Marvin told RELEVANT PARTIES host Chal Ravens about their multifaceted enterprise and make sure you check the accompanying Spotify playlist, highlighting some of the essential tracks in the Public Possession catalogue.

Relevant Parties Podcast Series - Public Possession

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DREAM ON w/ Lloyd @ The Lot Radio 12 - 16 - 2020

First Distant Planes show of '21, tracklist:

Bedouin Ascent - Joyriding III
Gi Gi - Deudorix
Voision Xi - morphine rope on fire
Linkwood - Up Wrong
Freda - Caterpillar
Cousin - TUB1
Vamos Desistir - Será
Khan - Warm Lethereth
Lifted - Mecha Perfume & Variety
Reinhard Vanbergen - The Dreamteam
David Moufang - Sergio Leone's Wet Dream
Citizen Maze - Northern Angelique

Distant Planes w/ Native Cruise - @ Noods Radio - 22.01.21

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